Education and Prevention

Americans Want Schools To Teach About AIDS

Published in AIDS Weekly, April 8th, 1996

Americans believe schools should teach pre-teens about AIDS and that television stations should start accepting advertisements for condoms, according to a survey released.

They want more references to "safer" sex and condom use in television and movies, and they think drug addicts should be able to get clean needles. But, although the survey for the Kaiser Family Foundation showed Americans are much more knowledgeable about HIV/AIDS than they are about many other public and policy issues, more than half still wrongly believe that donating blood is a risk.

Twelve percent believe that AIDS came from God to punish homosexual behavior. Eighteen percent...

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